Reparations: Why it’s about more than just money - BBC Africa

[@johnhughes2124]

I am going to share a very unpopular opinion - Reparations are dead in the water, foreign aid is already a touchy subject which is unpopular with many publics in the West, any government that even considered paying anything even close to the amounts cited in the UN report would be voted out of office faster than you can say Jack robinson. Africa's real problem today is the corruption, poor security infrastructure and general government malfeasance (as many commentators on BBC africa videos lament). But any attempt by Western governments and organizations to help with that is dismissed as 'neo-colonialism'. My theory is that the increased call for 'reparations' is an attempt to deflect blame for the current state of the African continent by its governments. I hate to break it to commentators here but until 5 minutes ago (in world history terms) all of the nasty things done to their ancestors was considered par for the course, it was generally accepted that the strong do as they will and weak suffer what they must. Now the post WW2 settlement changed this, the Rules Based international Order classed actions like genocide as one of the unacceptable things for nation states to do. It also (informally) recognised that because righting every wrong done by anyone was impossible that we should draw a line in the sand under past events and look to the future.

[@godwillodindo6826]

Bulls eye!. You are right,in this real world, reparations are eutopian no one is gonna vote for it,we just need to learn and reorganise ourselves,our leadership and fix our "trauma" and never allow the west to fix us like they did our fore fathers.

[@cuber5003]

This opinion is more popular than you think, too bad the media would rather sow division and gin up hysteria with the nonsense they spout.

[@flatbkush6]

I'm only worried about reparations for Foundational Black Americans. Let the Africans fight the fight in their native land

[@Salipenter1]

The entire discussion in this piece ignores Africa’s complicity in slavery. How unsurprising.

[@BengaKaf]

Don't even try it ! you stole from the whole world ! not even asking these people to do the right thing anymore western world crumbling ? Why Karma

[@petenrita]

There is no question whatsoever that the places that benefitted most from the slave trade were the coastal kingdoms of Africa.

[@Azrael3176]

Let's not forget about the Europeans they benefited alot from slave labor and the slaves decendents. And yes some africans should also owe black americans reperations. It should be fair as Germany giving the decendents of Jewish people cash payment reperations. Or how the u.s gives billions of dollars to Ukraine and israel! 👍🏾

[@ANGRYBEEDRILL]

​@@Azrael3176 Thank you someone with knowledge show me some love on my Quroa awesome mind like mine! If you wish though... My name is GANGHOON on Quroa 😊

[@adjoa-anima]

Benefits in terms of what because those chiefs only got mirrors and gun, their wealth was stolen alongside, the slave trade. The slave owners were the beneficiaries

[@leonardocolossi2270]

Not at all

[@jillpatton3432]

Maybe stop the current slave trade in Africa, before worrying about those that are long dead and buried.

[@africaine4889]

Trade slave done by arabs not africans

[@Richmicheal1]

What is happening in Africa continent is the result of what the slave masters planted and those need to be stop this is why we are calling for world justice

[@UCMICU]

🙌🏽 Absolutely!

[@africaine4889]

If you knew us Africans you would know that our ancestors are never forgotten and always acknowledge. And the current slave trade in africa is still done by outsiders.

[@jillpatton3432]

@@africaine4889 ... it's always someone else's fault and Africans are always helpless to stop it. This is why the counties of Africa will always be third world. Will always follow and never lead.

[@michaelpcoffee]

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.

[@geeropes]

I agree. So lets pay the victims that walk amongst you today regardless of their color

[@michaelpcoffee]

​@@geeropes Exactly: Prove your damages. Prove who did it. Collect your reparations. If you aren't out anything; You aren't owed anything.

[@kingmaafa120]

I dare you tell any ✡️that

[@michaelpcoffee]

@kingmaafa120 I haven't met one trying to force the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them. Excellent example. For real reparations: they identify an actual victim of the offense in question. They specify the abuses and damages. They assign a dollar amount for their compensation. They pay the victim. If the victim is deceased; they identify the closest living legal heir and pay them. What is the name of the slave that you are trying to collect the unpaid reparations for?

[@kingmaafa120]

@@michaelpcoffee GOOGLE WILLIAM A. “SANDY” DAIRTY JR… ✔️what he his to say FINALLY DR HENRIK CLARKE RIM❤️ KZbin You have no friends Once you’ve listened get back with me Ase

[@northnsouth6813]

The British government paid 20 million pounds as compensation for loss of property to those who owned slaves from 1835 to 1843.. This accounted for almost 40% of the treasury's income and the government had to take out loans to pay the owners of slaves, rather than pay reparations to slaves themselves.

[@lobbyskids2]

The british empire was the first to end the Atlantic slave trade and even forced many African countries to stop selling their slaves. Unfortunatly if they had not compensated the slave traders it probably wouldn't have been possible to end the Atlantic slave trade as well as it was done. If you want to see a counter example of how not to end a slave trade you should look at the east African slave trade which actually ended in the 20th century. It was far more brutal. In short slavery was as a common to the human condition as animal husbandry. The british can be proud of the fact that they stood by themselves and ended the practice at great cost to themselves in blood and treasure.

[@1curlygyrl]

@@lobbyskids2 slavery is one thing buts what’s more evil is kidnapping humans which lead to 400 years of African slavery for free labor and abuse to build America. Why continue with planned generational divide with the purpose of destroying African history and libraries which lead to erasing African heritage followed by prejudice and inequality. Why weren’t the descendants of African slaves Given the same reparations as victims of the holocaust? Why were holocaust victims rescued by America and taken care of while African Americans weren’t?

[@michaelpcoffee]

I'm surprised at how the freedom they were given is so completely discounted.

[@gerrycollins9829]

Of this is not a glaring example of white privilege, what is?

[@michaelpcoffee]

@gerrycollins9829 Confiscating lawfully owned property and compensating the owner for what was taken is white privilege? Where is the 'white'? What is the 'privilege'?

[@ibexdnb2879]

As a white man i couldn't agree more. I would happily pick up my reperations from the time of the Arab barbary slave trade. 😊

[@michaelpcoffee]

For real reparations: they identify an actual victim of the offense in question. They specify the abuses and damages. They assign a dollar amount for their compensation. They pay the victim. If the victim is deceased; they identify the closest living legal heir and pay them. What is the name of the slave that you are trying to collect the unpaid reparations for?

[@ANGRYBEEDRILL]

Would probably know the name if systematic racism didn't cloud the minds of the pure my question to you did you benefit from the soldiers and black brown soldiers that fought during the civil war? You know their names? I bet you, you don't lol 🤣

[@michaelpcoffee]

@@ANGRYBEEDRILL Exactly; prove you own it. Prove who has it. Take it. Simple. If you aren't out anything; You aren't owed anything. We are in complete agreement.

[@ANGRYBEEDRILL]

@@michaelpcoffee American government is the proof you living a well maybe not have to deal with racism life I assume? Yes I have figured it all out and again where are your sources?

[@michaelpcoffee]

@GANGHOON93 Your obsession with me is flattering but irrelevant. Your projections and strawmen are dismissed without comment.

[@ANGRYBEEDRILL]

@@michaelpcoffee no I am obsessed with the lack of understanding you have and now that is very intriguing to me Take care and continue on with your ego racist hate ;) don't have to deny it I can feel it through your screen you are nothing but an NPC carry on robot

[@Richmicheal1]

Money is not enough we want Africa freedom

[@Richmicheal1]

Definitely they can’t pay the amount for such labour what they did was horrible, the British and the Portuguese, did us dirty

[@Richmicheal1]

If I need a visa to come your country the country my ancestors built, this is not a freedom

[@Richmicheal1]

We African built those countries and I don’t think money is enough for such service

[@Youtubesucks565]

That’s what the focus should be on to stop foreign nations steeling wealth and fake leaders allow this to continue because certain families benefit instead of the people! This is why we are seeing in America this is more reason people that hate the system should run and make a change! No matter what race , ethnicity, or background, people should always have empathy for all instead of viewing only them! We should get rid of NATO and the WHO ! There is no benefit towards them ! American Politicians should stop meddling in other countries politics and worry about what there own people want! That’s to stop meddling in other peoples affairs! Stop the slavery that’s continuing to this day ! Stop platform’s like you tube owned by google which is also owned by a Pedophile on the run for having sex with under age girls! They are the reason and wealthy families like him that continue the slavery today called human trafficking or organ trafficking! People want to make innocent people pay for crimes in the past when wealthy families continue the practice today as we see with Jeffrey Epstein! Just like the past the wealthy families get away from the atrocities committed by having blame place on everyone when in fact it was them! Joe Briben the most corrupt President to date is bringing slavery back by climate change agenda, taking freedom away by his green new deal and has started multiple wars in under four years! Why? Because the people know it’s them who are doing it and propaganda like this is only there to instill anger to all!

[@treeherder2201]

@@Richmicheal1 Blacks are still practicing slavery in Africa themselves. Get some self awareness.

[@counterproof]

What about reparations from African tribes who sold other Africans to Europeans?

[@K...O....quake..]

tell us which tribes you are referring to. stop parroting a narrative Europeans told you. First off every person who was taken to the America's will come from one of the tribes you will claim. So do you hold them responsible? Secondly go and do your own research the same Europeans who tell you African's were will nilly selling African's will also tell you the entire population of Africa was around 50 million when the trans Atlantic slave trade started. This includes North, South, East and West African populations. Same people will tell you around 25 million were sent to the America's between the 1400s and the 1800's. This excludes approximately 17 million that were being stolen by the Arabs starting long before Europeans showed up. So first question, why is there no record of these African tribes selling African's to Arabs? Second question how many African's would be left of the approx. 50 mil that were busy selling each other to have profited from selling themselves? Go and do your research the part they leave out is the African's they claim were en mass selling each other were their own descendants from intermixing with the local populace they themselves stole. Go and look at their playbook it never changed, Go ad look at how they used mixed children the same way in places like Dominican Republic/Haiti etc. Instead of parroting the same tired narrative do your own investigation. Because those same people are now trying to claim in the USA that the enslaved were basically just migrants. While you are at it go and research how ad when the slave trade actually happened with the Spanish and Portugues royals. And lastly ask yourself why o earth these same Europeans took Head's, limbs etc of African royals as an example to put in glass jars as aa display and kept them in Europe when these same royals were supposedly giving them their people. For crying out loud these are the same people that claimed African's couldn't read or write when there is clear evidence of Timbuktu that disproves this. The same people that say African's were swinging on trees and uncultured yet they still have in their own museums and have documented proof of places like great Zimbabwe and The Benin walls etc.

[@jacobkoumalamassadeh7448]

​@@K...O....quake..well said man, they are trying to push and impose their narratives to victimize the African people to the atrocity they committed in the continent. But, evidence was there to prove that Africa was doing well, before their invasion and the thing that Africa, never does is to get in other people's continents and attack and destroy them for imperialist purposes.

[@TheZenGarden_]

Fyi; All "black people" are not African by blood, all "white people" however come from the same bloodline.

[@Youtubesucks565]

@@K...O....quake.. 🤔Ashanti which is present day Ghana, then there is Bono state, and Yoruba state , these were prisoners of war, debt slaves, and prostitution slaves! Slaves were transported all over the world and it continues to this day! Most Arab and some European hide it under the radar! When are people going to take accountability for them selves for allowing it to happen today ! Young Nigerian women are sold to these countries today! Reparations! Should the Israelites get reparations from Egypt! That’s documented too, or the Irish! There was a small percentage of elite families that owned slaves ! To have people pay for atrocious that there leaders in those days should have handled is ridiculous! It was just trans Alantic, there was the trans Sahara ! Many groups like Imbangala of Angola and the Nyamwezi of Tanzania were responsible for rounding up Africans ! How ironic Ghana is looking to get paid! Slavery existed over time! America is less than 400 years old and only 5% of the families in the south both white and black owned slaves! Stop talking about payments and stop it from happening today! 100thousand migrant children are missing in the United States under Biden working in labor and prostitution! We are trying to remove the garbage in power that stole a election in 2020 , the same garbage that wanted to strip Africa of its natural resources! Along with China and United Kingdom! But we don’t mention but America who is the newest nation and a civil war was fought to end it ! Here the same garbage want to rise to power again and enslave the world! No one is talking about that because your focused in the past!

[@lindokuhlemotsa8806]

Nonsensical deflection

[@Dock777]

Sue the African tribes that sold you.

[@syleiswiley4037]

And the buyer's who decided to maximize the profits by making slavery a generational crime. You don't have a problem suckling up the benefits of that crime.

[@dee7665]

Well the uk brought the whole slave trade company from Africa opening the door for America, which was the worst buyer

[@lobbyskids2]

⁠well actually the UK abolished the entire Atlantic slave trade and was the first major power in history to outright abolish slavery and enforce it internationally with its navy. It even forced many African kingdoms to stop enslaving each other. 🇬🇧

[@salamjihad3449]

@@syleiswiley4037 OR WORRY ABOUT THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES WHO STILL DEAL IN SLAVERY TODAY AS WE SPEAK !!

[@reedre6177]

They have no money and are also asking for reparations

[@4rklee]

What about the Sub-Saharan slave trade? Ishmael has to answer alongside Esau.

[@KlikQuot]

That’s next

[@africaine4889]

Yep. Don't worry we didn't forget about them

[@Thunder-0012]

They have no been forgotten justice will be served and the truth will be known

[@BB-cf9gx]

Perhaps reparations should be paid to the families of the white soldiers in the Union army that fought and died to end slavery.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

No one is arguing against that.

[@Thunder-0012]

Black Americans and Africans that fought in WW2 were not recognised for their contributions and white soldiers who fought in the civil war too end slavery were compensated as well as slaves owners who no longer could buy or sell slaves

[@thomas2236]

A person who never owned a slave can't pay a person who never was a slave. Thats like paying child support for a child you never had with a woman you never slept with.

[@MRPhoto_Digital]

Im sure you were not responsible for the holocaust but you paid (and keep paying) jewish people for it

[@UCMICU]

Yesss!! The history of American slavery has been misconstrued. Some freed slaves owned slaves and plantations. Then there are white farmers who freed their slaves and in their will they left their slaves entire farms, houses and money. My spouse had a 6th great grandpa who left 25 acres, 2 houses, cattle and cash to his former slaves. But Americans don’t discuss that. The “cash reparations “ concept is more of a political stunt for votes and to create division.

[@1curlygyrl]

True, but why does the US government still to this day Pay Native Americans from a time your ancestors took their land? U didn’t steal their land

[@thomas2236]

@@1curlygyrl I'm from Sweden so my ancestors have never taken any land. Well except for Russia, Poland, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, Finland and Norway but that was straight up war and they gave it back or lost it. One of the thorniest problems with making reparations to victims of sweeping historical injustices is deciding who is included and who is not. Native Americans have been given mostly land but also stock in companies. Individually they have never recieved much at all. Most white ppl arrived in the US after the civil war had ended so they got nothing to do with slavery. In 1860 1,6% of all white ppl owned slaves. If you are hoping to get "rich" it won't happen. It's better to use the money to improve housing, schools and social investments. The future starts with the kids, they are the ones who need the benefits, or you will loose yet another generation.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

This is a complex issue for you, it requires intelligence and a basic knowledge in economics. Your people invested in slavery, colonization and looting, you today would be poor if they did not, there is a reason why you have so much gold reserves, but barely have gold mines. I get how you think we want the two cents you get paid, no we want what was stolen from us and an apology simple. Did you know there are records of what was stolen. Also we still have your relatives in our countries, they live a better life than you by the way, even enjoy good weather.

[@michaelpcoffee]

If you aren't out anything; You aren't owed anything.

[@carpetsonline3718]

Hundreds of years ago. Irrelevant now. Do we get reparations for the Barbary slave trade ?. Please get over it.

[@Papasmokes875]

Our for my ancestors who fought in the civil war

[@monarchist1838]

In the words of the great civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in 1969, "If my great-grandfather picked cotton for 50 years, then he may deserve some money, but he's dead and gone and nobody owes me anything".

[@kingmaafa120]

Of course given his lifestyle he’d say that 😮🤐👍🤫☹️👎

[@monarchist1838]

@@kingmaafa120 perhaps he didn’t agree with crying eternal victimhood and demanding money for those long since dead.

[@yahelraphael5721]

why are the jews given reparations? ​@monarchist1838

[@Thunder-0012]

​@@monarchist1838 yet the plain disregard to treat African people, black Americans and Caribbean people fairly have been showed time and time again why is it so hard to understand that we are human beings

[@monarchist1838]

@@Thunder-0012 unfortunately it’s how mankind has treated each other since the dawn of civilisation. All races have enslaved one another and even themselves. The richest man in history was an African sovereign who enslaved Africans. If you go down the rabbit hole of reparations for past injustices, we’d all owe reparations to each other.

[@alexb5815]

Please consider factoring in all the cumulative foreign aid over the years into reputations and then a rebate may be due to the U.K.

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

Reparations should not be about money, but about making sure society treats everyone equally.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

We have tried that, you still find ways to F us, look at the imf or world bank making sure we stay poor.

[@xavergebhardt4744]

Will the now countries who’s former kings captured slaves in their wars and sold them to the Europeans, like modern day like Ghana and Nigeria, also have to pay reparations for the families that they harmed by assaulting and kidnapping their community members? I think for the topic of slavery European Countries should make reparations to the f.e. Caribbean countries where they (mis-)used the slaves. Then the African countries that harmed the families on the continent should pay for this harm they caused there.

[@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty]

Never gonna happen.

[@robertgarriott1827]

Before the Civil War, Slavery was Legal. After the Civil War they were free. Why should & who should pay for something that was legal & if so who should pay it. Some Americans didn’t have slaves & fought against it. Now we’re all Americans so who is going to pay. The people that died freeing the slaves ancestors should get reparations if other people do. They gave their lives.

[@baperacks-com6801]

u are not smart . These ppl are not who America owns .

[@JimRPickens]

I think the US should offer for reparations a free trip back to the homeland for all who are descendants of the previously enslaved ancestor. A one time offer and after it is done and all have chosen, we can all stfu about it.

[@PressEntertainmentLLC]

Reparations is not just money ,money is materialistic and can only be measure with lust,greed and lobbying...smiling

[@tjpopsit]

In a 🌎 where money is power, reparations mean everything.

[@lobbyskids2]

So you are basically begging for money becuase your ancestors were conquered?

[@Richmicheal1]

If money means everything to you that is fine we are Africa we have no idea what that papers means so it’s worthless for us Africans

[@Azrael3176]

​@@Richmicheal1ok then stay in the state your at lol. As a black american I want africans do better and to get there cash payment reperations aswell actions speak louder then words. I know they where also involved in selling us as slaves but alot of african nations that didn't do that where oppressed by other European nations.

[@hanningtonolodo4783]

No amount of money or sorry is equal the lives of the 20 million people that the King of Belgium murdered. Embrace the reality of reparations cannot erase the inhumane nature of the atrocities done during colonialism and slavery. And let this reparations nonsense end. If you want development raise a population of innovative, hardworking, and morally upright youths.

[@reedre6177]

It’s about the money that’s it

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

Why not? the people who colonized and enslaved were all about the bag.

[@michaelholder3933]

If America is going to start reparations I'm all for it as long as all of the injustices are addressed. My family did not own slaves but under the federal reconstruction my ancestors lost a little over 1000 acres of prime farmland. Both slavery and reconstruction were legal under federal laws until the emancipation proclamation. If my tax dollars are to be used to pay someone who was never a slave and the money is taken from people who never owned a slave then I am due money for that land, quite a bit of which is called Knoxville Tennessee now. Tell me how much you think that's worth.

[@1curlygyrl]

True, but you still benefit from the cruelty of your ancestors. Aren’t Black Americans due our 40 acres and mule that was promised to free slaves after over 400 yrs of generational free labor, rape and torture?

[@deshaun2109]

Every president has been against the educated negroes who want what we are really owed our land, gold, silver and precious stones that America and the other nations of the world including Rome have stolen and divided amongst themselves we do not want American money or to be under American law. We are tired of making America great we are a nation of our own with land across the Atlantic that was stolen. We forgot our heritage but remain a nation none the less give us what is ours first and then pay us reparations in gold and silver and livestock and crops. They can throw in the 40 acres and a mule for all of us as well that should take up a chunk of America but will be under our rule as a territory no American or any other nation will have jurisdiction there. The whole world knows what us negroes are owed it's time to pay up YHWH is gathering the remnant of His people He has saw our affliction any heard our cry. The world is about to witness the rebirth of Israel and the destruction of the wicked. Sounds like a broken record until the day comes that it be fulfilled. May the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob have mercy on us all.

[@PressEntertainmentLLC]

is there 400 million blacks in America?????

[@Aaron565]

Africa should pay reoperations to the west for all the free technology and aid.

[@starfame3853]

Bustard

[@TheZenGarden_]

*The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:* but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. ~ Mishlei 12:15

[@Jay-Kay-Buwembo]

Aid is a remittance of funds gained through neo-colonialism in the form of raw materials and is a fraction of what those raw materials actually cost. 60% of all aid is paid as expatriate worker salaries! Aid is a smoke screen for the idea that Africa is a charity case when Western countries are extracting wealth from these countries.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

2024 and you still think your spies coming back with our money you take in the form of minerals as aid is helping Africa. Free tech, show us who got free tech, we invent stuff and you refuse to patent then the next day you claim it as yours while our inventors disappear.

[@DavidChavez-gf2om]

Reparations will never happen.........Get a job and stop begging..

[@PressEntertainmentLLC]

Curse the fool who ask for reparations in the form of American or foreign currency and not gold .....It will be a slave wanting to be brought back in slavery.....Gold, military and land equals reparations....period

[@Creative_her_gets]

True

[@Creative_her_gets]

True

[@Richmicheal1]

You talk about reparations but the country is yet to recover from this crisis of the European government

[@paulreilly3904]

It's about two things. If you are a politician or a celebrity or similar it's about virtue signalling and how in tune you are with the times. For everyone else it's about free money.

[@ucan1]

I stand with Human Rights for Global Justice

[@TheZenGarden_]

🙄

[@lobbyskids2]

Free money isn't a human right

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@lobbyskids2 Its not free, our ancestors earned it, the labor our ancestors was forced to provide your ancestors was basically free.

[@lobbyskids2]

@@TheZenGarden_ maybe but you didn't though.

[@lobbyskids2]

@@TheZenGarden_ Your ancestors should have built a defensible civilisation. You were conquered. It happens to every people at some point or another.

[@Gregorywillard777]

The judicial system is based on time and money reparation Money / and land

[@salahdtoure6572]

THE ARABS WONT PAYS

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

Yes if they did they would even have to leave Egypt and other north African countries they colonized and took over

[@Thunder-0012]

Well said the UAE will go broke within days

[@naphtalndonga5444]

Haitians;wait,so you guys are getting reparations for being colonized?

[@RBG1st]

Smdh

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

You paid your colonizer, now him and his friends are causing problems for you

[@paulreilly3904]

All the people who are descended from slaves and who live in first world countries should be thinking themselves lucky their ancestors were slaves. At least they are now living in a safe prosperous country.

[@selinarobinson2545]

First thing African people need to come together and their leaders need to stop giving away their resources to west without Africa the west would fail the reason for no reaperation black people is because black people don't unite the Jewish people will continue get money and land and everything they ask for because they unite

[@Creative_her_gets]

True

[@UCMICU]

Or it’s because they’re not owed anything at all since they never lived through actual slavery. This is a waste of time and resources. It’s simply greed and politics.

[@saanichannel533]

Im too quick to open 😂

[@Zugga8Mugga]

Forget it

[@pr-jensen]

De skal ikke have noget, det er fortid .

[@FRFA1]

Africa does not need reparations. Africa need today lead its continent as a country. 1. Take 100% control of all natural resources and minerals and trade for the top but fair price. Each government of each country must build architecture machines that brings us our natural resources rather than it being manufactured. 2. We need to maximise our full potential example Congos river has the potential to produce the most electricity in the whole world . The mega project The grand Inga Dam must be created with this hydro energy we can grow indefinitely with our own land and funds. 3. We need 1 military and a democracy power that governs all 54 countries or some type of system

[@ryanziller220]

The incident with Glencoe® several years ago was telling of a collective effort simply not to pay for natural resources being extracted. Europeans intentionally will not pay and vote to steal the resources although the governments are incapable of recognizing the value unless a bribe is offered to a coterie of Eurocentric puppets.

[@africaine4889]

Nope we need compensation. Let them annulled all debts in africa

[@ryanziller220]

@@africaine4889 All reparations are earned at the end of a war (e.g. Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War or France in spite of the Haitian-French War). The more that word is thrown around, the more prepared people ought to be in fighting each battle that it will take to provide whichever form of reparations to the losing side as it may seem appropriate.

[@FRFA1]

@@africaine4889 if Africa controls 100% of it’s resources Africa Control over 60% of world trade which means infinity amount of money. If Africa with BRICS get it right world economy will change dramatically by the £ and $ being dramatically weakened which means Africa again will gain much more wealth. If Africa with all this wealth can build with this income mega projects like the Grand inja Dam Africa will transform dramatically in every single way, this will make countries like America and Britain turn into Malaysia without Africa. America and Britain will need to match whatever price Africa put on trade and Africa will become THE world power with China and Russia already its main allies. We dont reparations these merely just an added boost to Africa, maybe in terms of us the people yes but Africa it’s self does not needs anyone or anything, Africa has everything.

[@retro-spective3403]

Notwithstanding the fact that no empathetic, sane, rationale person would ever condone slavery (as this is the specific issue being raised here) the simple fact is nobody alive today can be held accountable for the actions of others today or yesterday, no matter the issue, or characteristics of what happened today or yesterday. By this level of logic and rationale, anyone who was ever disadvantaged by another in history, all the way back to to the first fight between a big and small amoeba in a scummy pond 3 billion years ago is entitled to reparations, is so absurd that it beggars belief and might arguably be more likely to be the subject of a Monty Python sketch. The other point is that even if it could be resolved, who benefits from the reparations, who gets what and why, and if X gets more than Y and Z gets nothing, is that fair, and just? The only way this might ever work is by drawing a hard line today and everyone agreeing going forward that reparations are reasonable and likely in the future for any such injustices….. and good luck trying to get everybody to agree to that! Common sense tells us we all know what this is really about…… it’s about £, greed, vengeance and power….. justice isn’t the even on the radar!

[@jonsmith1809]

Who pays reparations? The UK? The Government? No, the tax payer pays but, half the UK tax payers aren't British. So how would you determine who pays and who doesn't? And how many people are 100% British? The whole idea is nonsense.

[@kris6071]

"Why its about more than just money" Not according to each of these idiots who stand up saying they want the millions of dollars they'd get from it. They'd rather profit off something that occurred 200 years ago and anyone who was associated with it is long since dead, buried and turned to dust. It happened, it was abolished, it ended. Let it go and move on and do something productive for society like.... getting a job (hey and you surprisingly make money that way too! Who woulda thought!)

[@FancyProductions]

I thought this was about the US

[@raymondhornsey]

where is the reparations to the British people for the money our for fathers spent on stopping slavery around the world and as for Africa , you sold the slaves to Europe so pay your own people

[@meganhess9531]

Give the black people in America executive jobs, that’s the best reparation.

[@baperacks-com6801]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@yahsscattered8502]

Some nation has to be the first to move. Though this will likely cause international anger and put pressure on and embarrass all the other nation who don't join in, it will get the ball moving. The first to move should be all the African nations involved in the slave trade. They should put together a small fund, some land and residency for the children of the slaves. This would be painful for them but this will transform reparations from academic discussions to reality

[@captainpugwash7174]

In 2024 there is more slavery then ever. Human trafficking is crazy.

[@Creative_her_gets]

True only fans pimping all the females smh

[@Goddessev37sChandler]

0:18 which iii have all injuries multiple times and the shame & dangers of it all no compensation.

[@deeprincess3159]

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[@latenyts6480]

The question I wanna ask the West is this, your forefathers recognized that all humans are born equal and so they ended slavery. But the colonial times and the neo colonial time as Africa is existing in right now make me ask these questions genuinely; if truly all humans are born equal and that all humans have equal rights, do you truly believe that?

[@Richmicheal1]

100 right, and we must do the right thing we need world justice, we need the equality of humanity all over the world and not special treatment but equality, the colonialism need to stop in Africa I mean from my Africa continent, I am a Nigerian I am African

[@salamjihad3449]

IM NOT WAITING FOR MY MULE FROM THE GOVERNMENT ! I BOUGHT MY OWN MULE !! I GUESS I DIDNT THINK THIS THROUGH . MY LANDLORD IS EVICTING ME IF I DONT GET RID OF IT !!

[@underballbutter]

Let's all pay reparations to Dinosaurs. Give Reptiles their land back. Mammals are colonizers.

[@NigelJackson]

Not..one...penny.

[@emmanuelameyaw9735]

We don't want reparations...just open your borders.😂😂

[@Thunder-0012]

Reparations is not about money it is about all the suffering and discrimination that people of African heritage and ancestors experience and currently going through federal laws must be changed and ensured that African people are treated fairly as we are human beings and we do have rights immigrants get rights and acknowledgement and are treated fairly in every aspect yet African people black Americans and Caribbean people are not this must come too and end the Arab slave trade existed way before the Atlantic slave trade yet they think they can get away scotch free no way enough is enough

[@ufqq]

I guess this is the special time when our begging for money will finally work for development ehh😅.

[@ReshonBryant]

Stay on them about it bro. They can say no. But, the idea will eventually be that everytime they see a Black face it will be associated with where's my money?🌝

[@PRAWDATOJEST-vd9eq]

STOP✋ discrimination against homosexuals in Africa and Arabia STOP✋ homophobia...

[@booksummaryrecap]

Nobody live in the past what has happened is in the past let focus on building African to greater heights That should be our focus. Even if they pay the money tell what we use the money to do I will tell you our leaders we misuse the money

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

You are missing the point, the reparations are not just about the money, it is admission of guilt. Also you need to understand that not paying is the reason they continue to think they own Africa, moving around and summoning us and telling us how to govern or else sanctions.

[@yacobus2206]

I would support full reparations! This would be calculating the loss of all income of what would have been earned in Africa from the 1600s until now. This would probably be less than a few hundred dollars a year. Full reparations include the cost of returning to the land nativity and the renunciation of American citizenship.

[@auspiciousnkomo3071]

If it gets to that then many European descendants will return to Europe, only the natives, the real owners of America will remain. Africans are just asking for you to not get jealous of them being paid for the brutal injustice they have suffered. Till today some of your relatives like Frans still have colonies in west Africa in 2024. Also the few hundred dollars I agree, add to that the trillions in dollars worth of gold and other minerals that you have been stealing since then.

[@TheZenGarden_]

The Transatlantic Slave Trade aka Devarim 28:15-68​ = Bereshit 15:12-14.

[@Luigimansion-kq7bb]

What is it about if its more then money? Huh? What are you to show for or gain? Nothing! You think your ancestors are gonna rise from the grave and pat you on the back?

[@SombaMweene]

Haiti typing

[@TrapstarJolene]

Keep the apology…send the money! That was not suppose to be free labor.

[@goody657]

Ezekiel 18 20. Reparations are against god

[@reincarnationa1525]

😂😂😂 sure you’ll get reparation one day

[@ChuckWindham-z8x]

Just looking for another way to not work, and live off everyone else.

[@philsophkenny]

💯

[@zaanz-lp8lc]

An insult .

[@pembapemba4330]

Nothing can repare. Free Africa!

[@treeherder2201]

Yes......ALL registered Democrats should start paying right away. It was their policies of slavery and Jim Crow that started this conversation to begin with.

[@1957kosam]

We have no problem with who will take the money, whether Africa or its children in diaspora, what is more important is that the money should be paid.

[@Alex-r7b4h]

Africa should be able to sue. So they can focus on the right things.

[@UCMICU]

Africa should address the disease, poverty, FGM, rape etc. The leaders live like kings while the people live in toxic waste.

[@BlackPantherrStudios]

Haiti 🇭🇹 needs 🤑💰 monetary reparations from France. Haiti and the African Union must join forces in March 2026. Africa 🌍 is the greatest

[@UCMICU]

Haiti should be evacuated & given back to Hispaniola native tribes like Taino.

[@KendroNema]

U again nana you lie too much

[@1978rayking]

Poor people since before Bible times, I could honestly see a little taxes invested in each company at a time, for everyone, not free,but as a investment!!!! for everyone when robots take over 😂 . I mean the world was never good we all fought and many died, the lies where never made laws. Let's be real nobody owes anyone anything. Let's get real and ask all branches, people, and businesses, governments, to work together for a future investment of payments to everyone rich or poor as a investment that goes up and down.😮 Let's get real. Let's not be sitting on our hands when robots slowly start boiling the frog in the water, Let's work together technology is everywhere worldwide.

[@SumbodiXlennialMama]

#random #HotTopic I hang on every word #Whoopi says☕ that's one of the reasons why I'd like for #journalist to ask her more in-depth questions in regards to her RECEIVING #respirations she claims her family received. I want the journalist to request clarification on this.

[@David-hc4xh]

In 2024 it is shocking given that Portugal was one of the main countries involved in the slave trade. It was the first to illegally traffic men women and children to children to places like Brazil the Carribean and Europe in forced labour. Even the Church of England has recognized its role in the slave trade and has pledged reparations. Countries and institutions should acknowledge the crimes of the past and our then right.

[@pearls1626]

First of all We want Britain, France, USA, Spain, Portuguese, Belgium etc need to pack their things and leave, especially the Military troops, that will be a start to reparations! Especially France need to stop collecting 500 billions dollars yearly from French colonies! And pay back the money. Return our artifacts with the money they have been collecting!!!

[@Francisqolito]

We want our name Kĩrĩnyaga back! ..the white name 'Kenya' is extremely nefarious!!

[@Francisqolito]

Our pride and dignity starts with our identity ..which is intricately linked with our nomenculture (the afro-americans made the mistake of 'claiming' the word 'nigga' and to this day they fail to take themselves seriously) We try to wear the 'Kenyan' identity to our own peril!

[@Francisqolito]

..the diabolic

[@pembapemba4330]

#Free Africa

[@lobbyskids2]

I think that was the idea at the time 😅 perhaps consider pricing your labour less cheaply.

[@Chisobhaneko]

There must be reparations!!!

[@calistafalcontail]

Quick question: Who is meant to pay those reparations? The Arabs or the Whites? Cause it was the arabs who enslaved black africans and others for 600 years BEFORE the transatlantic slave trade. Most slave traders were arabs and some were black. Slavery is a thing in arab nations to this day btw....they helped the europeans/americans to establish their slave trade later. Without them, it wouldnt have happened. So ask all the Mohammeds for some coin too while you are at it.

[@michaelpcoffee]

For real reparations: they identify an actual victim of the offense in question. They specify the abuses and damages. They assign a dollar amount for their compensation. They pay the victim. If the victim is deceased; they identify the closest living legal heir and pay them. What is the name of the slave that you are trying to collect the unpaid reparations for?